Arlene Francis

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Francis was born in Boston, Massachusetts ,the daughter of Leah (née Davis) and Aram Kazanjian.Her Armenian father was studying art in Paris at age 16 when he learned that both his parents had died in one of the Hamidian massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia between 1894 and 1896.He emigrated to the United States and became a portrait photographer, opening his own studio in Boston in the early 20th century.